Caribbean people

Caribbean people

Total population
c. 45–47 million
12 million
Cuba	11 million
Haiti	11.3 million
Dominican Republic	10 million
Puerto Rico	3.4 million
Jamaica	2.7 million
Trinidad and Tobago	1.3 million
Guyana	789,683
Languages
Mainly Spanish, French, French-based creole languages (Haitian Creole, Antillean Creole), English, English-based creole languages (Jamaican Patois, Bahamian Creole, Trinidadian Creole, Guyanese Creole, Bajan Creole), Papiamento, San Andrés–Providencia Creole Minority Dutch, Caribbean Hindustani, Chinese
Religion
Predominantly: Christianity Minority: Hinduism Islam Judaism Rastafari Baháʼí Amerindian religion Afro-American religion Traditional African religions Buddhism Sikhism Jainism Zoroastrianism Taoism Confucianism Chinese folk religion Kebatinan Others
Related ethnic groups
Americans, Canadians, Latin Americans

Caribbean people are the people born in or inhabitants of the Caribbean region or people of Caribbean descent living outside the Caribbean. The Caribbean region was initially populated by Amerindians from several different Kalinago and Taino groups. These groups were decimated by a combination of enslavement and disease brought by European colonizers. Descendants of the Taino and Kalinago tribes exist today in the Caribbean and elsewhere but are usually of partial Amerindian ancestry.^[1]

Modern Caribbean people usually further identify by their own specific ethnic ancestry, therefore constituting various subgroups, of which are: Afro-Caribbean (largely descendants of bonded African slaves), Hispanic/Latino-Caribbean (people from the Spanish-speaking Caribbean who descend from solely or a mixture of Spaniards, West Africans, indigenous peoples, or other Europeans), Indo-Caribbean (largely descendants of Indian jahaji indentured laborers), White Caribbean (largely descendants of European colonizers and some indentured workers), and Chinese Caribbeans (largely descendants of free Chinese immigrants and some indentured workers).

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• Afro-Caribbean
• British African-Caribbean people
• Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean
• Caribbean region of Colombia
• Indo-Caribbean
• Asian Caribbean
• White Caribbean
• West Indian